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Former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, 89, was admitted to a Florida hospital on Tuesday, CNN has confirmed.

Ruben Navarrette says plan for a new approach on DREAM Act that gets illegal immigrant kids right with the law but denies citizenship is a commonsense way to break a stalemate, take step in the right direction

The Fifth Circuit's homework assignment to the Department of Justice is a disgrace -- an embarrassment to the federal judiciary. Still, it's a useful window on the contemporary merger of law and politics.

Ruben Navarrette says plan for a new approach on DREAM Act that gets illegal immigrant kids right with the law but denies citizenship is a commonsense way to break a stalemate, take step in the right direction

If you've always dreamed of owning your own town, you may be in luck. Buford, Wyoming is for sale.

E-books aren't just becoming increasingly popular. They also appear to be promoting reading habits among American adults.

The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed a ship to sink a fishing trawler that was swept away more than a year ago by the tsunami off the coast of Japan and is now adrift near Alaska.

The Connecticut Senate voted 20-16 early Thursday morning on a bill that would do away with the death penalty and make the state the fifth in five years to abolish capital punishment.

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will be in a Pennsylvania courtroom Thursday as his lawyers argue that child sex abuse charges against him be dismissed.

The Justice Department is preparing to sue Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying talks between the two sides in a discrimination settlement have fallen through.

The government says it's pulling some troops out response to former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's peace plan, his spokesman says. The claim couldn't be confirmed.

The Upper Big Branch coal mine, where 29 people were killed in a blast two years ago Thursday, will be permanently sealed by the summer.

Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was sentenced Thursday to 25 years behind bars by a federal judge in New York.

The Detroit City Council passed a financial consent agreement late Wednesday with a 5-4 vote, which grants the city the power to void contracts and slash costs but not provide state funding or loans to bail the city out of its financial problems.

Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill requiring physicians performing abortions to be board-certified obstetrician-gynecologists and have admitting privileges at an area hospital.

Two investigations into the burning of Qurans by U.S. military personnel are complete, according to an International Security Assistance Force official.

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney pivots from GOP rivals toward the president and the general election.

Matt Welch says the surprise isn't that a federal agency was "busted" for its $822,000 Las Vegas junket, it's that taxpayers haven't figured out that the government has been on a spending binge for years

Former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, 89, was admitted to a Florida hospital on Tuesday, CNN has confirmed.

A JetBlue pilot who had an apparent meltdown aboard a flight last week will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see whether he was sane during the incident and whether he is competent to stand trial.